I send you a pictures that shows how when I open the customize-variable
it shows that Display Line NUmbers is off, but you can see the numbers
enabled.

And another where I changed it to relative, but the values are still
absolute after setting them for current session.



On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 10:02:52PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 20:38:06 +0200
>> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> M-x customize-variable RET display-line-numbers
>
>Works for me as expected.
>